Blackspotted puffer
The blackspotted puffer is a small tropical sea fish that lives on coral reefs and in lagoons across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is poisonous rather than venomous, so it is dangerous to eat but does not bite or sting.1

Co renconuscher el
- Small, oval, rounded body with no scales; the skin is smooth.1
- Short snout with two pairs of nostrils and four strong teeth.1
- Background colour varies: grey, light brown, bluish, bright yellow or orangey yellow, and sometimes two colours such as blue and yellow.1
- Skin covered in dark blotches of varying size and shape.1
- Dark colouring around the eyes and mouth.1
Savens confundì cun: The yellow colour forms are very similar to those of Arothron meleagris, but they can be told apart. The fully yellow form is much rarer in this species (about 1% of individuals, compared with 10% in A. meleagris). It usually keeps dark markings around the mouth, eyes and base of the dorsal fin, while A. meleagris is uniformly yellow with black spots.1
Forza tossica
El è mo nuschaivel, sch'insatge al mangia.
Tge fa sia substanza tossica?
It is not venomous. It holds tetrodotoxin, a deadly poison that protects it from predators.1
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: Fitg privlusEl po mazzar ina persuna che na survegn nagin tractament.Its tetrodotoxin is deadly. The risk comes from eating or handling the fish.1
Tge fa el, cura ch'el ha tema?
When threatened, it inflates its body by swallowing air or water.1
Sch'insatgi l'ha tutgà u mangià
- Sch'insatgi l'ha mangià u ha sintoms suenter l'avair mangià: clama immediat tes numer d'urgenza u il center toxicologic.
Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid
Resta en segirezza
- Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
- Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
- Sche ti l'has tutgà u mangià: na sfruscha betg ils egls u la bucca, lava ils mauns e tschertga agid medicinal.
El n'ha betg quai sin tai. Ses tissi è mo là, per che nagin na al mangia. Dapli davart la segirezza
Nua sin il mund?
Quant grond è el?
Quant lung è el?
uschè lung sco 10 bluccs da construcziun in suenter l'auter
pudess nudar la lunghezza d'in grond bassin (50 m) en 45 secundasQuant grond è Blackspotted puffer cumpareglià cun TAI?
Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.
Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
Its tetrodotoxin poison is strong enough to protect it from predators.1
It has no scales, and its skin is covered with dark blotches.1
It has no pelvic fins and no lateral line.1
It is active during the day and lives alone, defending its own territory.1
It has four strong teeth set in a terminal mouth.1
Per experts da tissi
- Num scientific
- Arothron nigropunctatus
- Gruppa
- Auters animals tossics
- Famiglia
- Tetraodontidae2
- Urden
- Tetraodontiformes
- Continents
- Ocean Pacific, Ocean Indic, Mar Cotschen, Mar da Coral, Mar da las Filippinas, Mar da la China dal Sid, Mar da Timor e d'Arafura, Golf dal Bengal, Ils oceans
- Privel per umans
- 4 / 5: Fitg privlus3
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Blackspotted puffer (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Arothron nigropunctatus (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.
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Tossic da mangiar

